@jw944ts SO HARD TO PICK!
As a HUGE LR fan, biggest I know anyway from day 1, I used her recordings to sell tons of Audio Research/Magneplanar systems in the ’70’s. Crystal clear recordings and female voices sound so good on the early Maggies. (Used Maria Muldaur as well...).
Saw her at the Sportatorium (South FL people will get off on that!) and sat 7 rows back from the stage. I was mesmerized--this was her Living in the USA period, and as good as any. (Thank-you, Elaine, for taking me! ALL the ladies I went out with back then knew she was my first love. Even dated a lady for years because she looked like Linda--we are still friends today.)
I still listen to her recordings pretty much all the time. Recorded and rewatched the Kennedy Center honor show, and read several books of the times--hers included.
Biggest surprise was that she did not enjoy the rock music, and that she stated she could listen to a singer and tell almost immediately who the singer was copying. A real musician who dated Jerry Brown--I even collected all the magazines she was interviewed in and still have them, including that wonderful Rolling Stone cover.
Since she liked the Mexican and Standards stuff best, I guess I will go for those, but I still love her Stone Pony stuff, and her Buddy Holly covers with Peter Asher were amazing.
Finally, the trio stuff was not as exciting as I thought it could be--mixing issues, I guess--but those are wonderful as well.
So, let’s just select HER ENTIRE CATALOG as my favs, OK?
Cheers,
Richard
As a HUGE LR fan, biggest I know anyway from day 1, I used her recordings to sell tons of Audio Research/Magneplanar systems in the ’70’s. Crystal clear recordings and female voices sound so good on the early Maggies. (Used Maria Muldaur as well...).
Saw her at the Sportatorium (South FL people will get off on that!) and sat 7 rows back from the stage. I was mesmerized--this was her Living in the USA period, and as good as any. (Thank-you, Elaine, for taking me! ALL the ladies I went out with back then knew she was my first love. Even dated a lady for years because she looked like Linda--we are still friends today.)
I still listen to her recordings pretty much all the time. Recorded and rewatched the Kennedy Center honor show, and read several books of the times--hers included.
Biggest surprise was that she did not enjoy the rock music, and that she stated she could listen to a singer and tell almost immediately who the singer was copying. A real musician who dated Jerry Brown--I even collected all the magazines she was interviewed in and still have them, including that wonderful Rolling Stone cover.
Since she liked the Mexican and Standards stuff best, I guess I will go for those, but I still love her Stone Pony stuff, and her Buddy Holly covers with Peter Asher were amazing.
Finally, the trio stuff was not as exciting as I thought it could be--mixing issues, I guess--but those are wonderful as well.
So, let’s just select HER ENTIRE CATALOG as my favs, OK?
Cheers,
Richard